From the Rivers of Babylon to the Highlands of Judah
Collected Studies
Sara Japhet(Editor)
Eisenbrauns (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 2006
Book
Hardback
479 pages
978-1-57506-121-4 (ISBN)
Description
Culled from various books, journals, and festscrifts, the most important essays by Sara Japhet on the biblical restoration period and the books of "Ezra-Nehemiah" and "Chronicles" appear in this accessible collection. Japhet, who is Yehezkel Kaufmann Professor of Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and received the Israel Prize for biblical scholarship in 2004, has been a leading scholar on these topics for more than 30 years.Included here are studies on the question of common authorship of "Ezra-Nehemiah" and "Chronicles", the temple during the restoration period, the use of the law in "Ezra-Nehemiah", postexilic historiography, the "remnant" and self-definition during the restoration period, the historical reliability of Chronicles, and conquest and settlement in Chronicles. Scholars and students with an interest in the history, historiography, and theology of the restoration period, and in the interpretation of "Ezra-Nehemiah" and "Chronicles" will want to own this compendium of valuable essays.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pennsylvania State University Press
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-57506-121-4 (9781575061214)
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